Called Freedomland, the imaginary world features 128 clusters of the mega-homes (Krumwiede calls them estates) that resemble 19th-century communes or medieval villages.

A 114,000-square-foot redesign of a neighborhood in the cookie-cutter suburb Levittown, Pennsylvania, comprised of 24 houses with 168 bedrooms, as depicted in "Atlas of Another America."
Keith Krumweide

The McMansion plans come from real house layouts used by homebuilders known for constructing McMansion neighborhoods, like Toll Brothers and Pulte.

A redesign of a neighborhood in the cookie-cutter suburb Bellew Green, Dublin, comprised of 16 houses with 48 bedrooms, as depicted in "Atlas of Another America."
Keith Krumweide

Each 10-acre estate site features McMansions that connect to one another, forming mega McMansions. Some of these clusters, which may circle around a park or plaza, have up to 200 bedrooms and 100 bathrooms each.

Four estate sites make up larger 40-acre parcels, three-quarters of which include farmland.

A family of farmers in a McMansion village, as depicted in "Atlas of Another America."
Keith Krumwiede

The goal of the satirical book, which is satirical but also pays homage to McMansions, is to explore how suburbs could come up with new street layouts for huge homes. Krumwiede, an architecture professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, says that Freedomland would promote interaction amongst neighbors since the estates are closer together than homes in typical McMansion neighborhoods.

A plan for an imaginary suburb called Elysian Fields, comprised of 32 houses with 160 bedrooms, as depicted in "Atlas of Another America."
Keith Krumwiede
"Freedomland is premised on the following irrefutable truths: that local farming is good, being that it provides better food and makes better use of our increasingly limited resources than commercial agriculture; that urban living is also good, improving as it does the health, happiness, and prosperity of the populace; and that the majority of Americans still aspire to the material and spatial luxuries represented by the detached single-family house as it is most resplendently found in the suburbs," he writes.

An illustration of a couple at a McMansion village in Freedomland, from "Atlas of Another America."
Keith Krumweide